Re:[tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-20 Thread William Scott
Mike Palij provides the The description of Bilal's art: |The artwork, titled The 3rd I, is intended as “a comment on the |inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and |experience, the WSJ explains, quoting press materials from the |museum, which is to feature Bilal’s work

Re:[tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-19 Thread Allen Esterson
On 18 November 2010 Mike Palij wrote: Even in NYC I think people forget how often they are under surveillance. A situation like initially seems shocking until one realizes, oh yeah, there's someone watching us most of the time. Purely on the accuracy of this statement (with no intention to start

Re:[tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-19 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:50:44 -0800, Allen Esterson wrote: On 18 November 2010 Mike Palij wrote: Even in NYC I think people forget how often they are under surveillance. A situation like initially seems shocking until one realizes, oh yeah, there's someone watching us most of the time. Purely on

Re:[tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-19 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:34:15 -0800, William Scott wrote: Which begs the question, Who will be watching the video feed from our professor's occiput in Qatar, ... and why? Well, the exhibition of images will be at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, so I assume it will be Qatari locals and

Re: [tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-18 Thread Serafin, John
Hmmm...I'm not sure why the camera needs to be surgically implanted, so maybe there's more behind this than is indicated in the story. He's not feeding these images into any bigger database, is he? Also, I'm not sure about Fred Ritchin's response that Obviously you don¹t want students to be under

Re: [tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Palij
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:28:19 -0800,, John Serafin wrote: Hmmm...I'm not sure why the camera needs to be surgically implanted, so maybe there's more behind this than is indicated in the story. He's not feeding these images into any bigger database, is he? The Toronto Sun article appears to have